STATUS

RESOLUTION

The Status field indicates the
current state of a bug. Only certain status transitions
are allowed.

The Resolution field indicates what
happened to this bug.

Open Bugs

UNCONFIRMED

This bug has recently been added to the database.
Nobody has confirmed that this bug is valid. Users
who have the "canconfirm" permission set may confirm
this bug, changing its state to
CONFIRMED.
Or, it may be directly resolved and marked
RESOLVED.

CONFIRMED

This bug is valid and has recently been filed.
Bugs in this state become
IN_PROGRESS
when somebody is working on them, or become resolved and marked
RESOLVED.

IN_PROGRESS

This bug is not yet resolved, but is assigned to the
proper person who is working on the bug. From here,
bugs can be given to another person and become
CONFIRMED, or
resolved and become
RESOLVED.

No resolution yet. All bugs which are in one of
these "open" states have no resolution set.

Closed Bugs

RESOLVED

A resolution has been performed, and it is awaiting verification by
QA. From here bugs are either reopened and given some
open status, or are verified by QA and marked
VERIFIED.

VERIFIED

QA has looked at the bug and the resolution and
agrees that the appropriate resolution has been taken. This is
the final status for bugs.

FIXED

A fix for this bug is checked into the tree and
tested.

INVALID

The problem described is not a bug.

WONTFIX

The problem described is a bug which will never be
fixed.

DUPLICATE

The problem is a duplicate of an existing bug.
When a bug is marked as a
DUPLICATE,
you will see which bug it is a duplicate of,
next to the resolution.

WORKSFORME

All attempts at reproducing this bug were futile,
and reading the code produces no clues as to why the described
behavior would occur. If more information appears later,
the bug can be reopened.

Other Fields

Assignee

The person in charge of resolving the bug.

Blocks

This bug must be resolved before the bugs listed in this
field can be resolved.

Bug ID

The numeric id of a bug, unique within this entire installation of Bugzilla.

CC

Users who may not have a direct role to play on this bug, but who
are interested in its progress.

Changed

When this bug was last updated.

Classification

Bugs are categorised into Classifications, Products and Components. classifications is the top-level categorisation.

Comment

Bugs have comments added to them by Bugzilla users. You can search for some text in those comments.

Component

Components are second-level categories; each belongs to a particular Product. Select a Product to narrow down this list.

Content

This is a field available in searches that does a Google-like
'full-text' search on the Summary and
Comment fields.

Creation date

When the bug was filed.

Depends on

The bugs listed here must be resolved before this bug
can be resolved.

Hardware

The hardware platform the bug was observed on.
Note: When searching, selecting the option "All"
only finds bugs whose value for this field is literally
the word "All".

Keywords

You can add keywords from a defined list to bugs, in order to tag and group them.

OS

The operating system the bug was observed on.
Note: When searching, selecting the option "All"
only finds bugs whose value for this field is literally
the word "All".

Priority

Engineers prioritize their bugs using this field.

Product

Bugs are categorised into Products and Components.

QA Contact

The person responsible for confirming this bug if it is unconfirmed, and for verifying the fix once the bug has been resolved.

Reporter

The person who filed this bug.

See Also

This allows you to refer to bugs in other installations.
You can enter a URL to a bug in the 'Add Bug URLs'
field to note that that bug is related to this one. You can
enter multiple URLs at once by separating them with a comma.

You should normally use this field to refer to bugs in
other installations. For bugs in this
installation, it is better to use the Depends on and
Blocks fields.

Severity

How severe the bug is, or whether it's an enhancement.

Summary

The bug summary is a short sentence which succinctly describes what the bug is about.

Tags

A custom Unknown Type field in this installation of Bugzilla.

URL

Bugs can have a URL associated with them - for example, a pointer to a web site where the problem is seen.

Version

The version field defines the version of the software the bug was found in.